tkFileDialog question

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On Nov 13, 2:47 pm, "Matt Mitchell" <mmitch... at transparent.com> wrote:
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> [mailto:python-list-bounces+mmitchell=transparent.... at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Matt Mitchell
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:33 AM
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> Subject: tkFileDialog question
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> Hi,
>
> This is my first attempt to write a script with any kind of gui.   All I
> need the script to do is ask the user for a directory and then do stuff
> with the files in that directory.  I used tkFileDialog.askdirectory().
> It works great but it pops up an empty tk window.  Is there any way to
> prevent the empty tk window from popping up? Here's the code:
>
> import tkFileDialog
>
> answer = tkFileDialog.askdirectory()
>
> if answer is not '':
>         #do stuff
>
> Thanks!
> Matt
> --http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
> Hi,
>
> After a few more hours of googling I answered my own question:
>
> import Tkinter, tkFileDialog
>
> root = Tk()
> root.withdraw()
>
> answer = tkFileDialog.askdirectory()
>
> if answer is not '':
>         #do stuff
>
> Thanks!!

hello Matt,

Here is one way


import Tkinter as tk
from tkFileDialog import askdirectory
import os

root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()

folder = askdirectory()
if folder:
    root.destroy() #make sure to do this!!!!
    print os.listdir(folder)

root.mainloop()

good luck!